People with normal Lp(a) have much lower risk factors. We tend to overmedicate them. The normal levels of LDL should be revised upwards for them.
Category: Videos
[YouTube] Does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Brain Cancer? Finding Signal in a Small Sample
Does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Brain Cancer? Doctors find it hard to do a trial, so many make you believe that it does not work rather than simply claiming “it is just untested” (conflating the absence of evidence for evidence of absence).
Bloomberg: Nassim Taleb Says Nvidia Rout ‘Is the Beginning’
Black Swan author Nassim Taleb says the steep plunge in Nvidia exposes the equity market’s fragility, while warning of more losses ahead. Speaking to Bloomberg’s Sonali Basak on the sidelines of Miami Hedge Fund Week, Taleb says a drawdown two or three times bigger than Monday’s 17% selloff is “absolutely in line” with what the market should expect.
[YouTube] The IQ debate, a conclusion
Just to show, in conclusion to my article “IQ is a pseudoscientific swindle”, that psychologists arguing with it proved that IQ doesn’t explain up to 99.5% of things it is supposed to explain. It’s not my data, but theirs that they did not interpret correctly.
[YouTube] Fragility, Robustness, and Antifragility
Public talk by Nassim Nicholas Taleb at the Jassim Al-Qatami Engineering Lecture Hall on December 9, 2024, exploring fragility, robustness, and antifragility with insights on Lebanon and Palestine. Taleb begins speaking at 55:39.
Bloomberg: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Fragility of Markets, Political Risk, AI
Nassim Taleb, Black Swan author and Universa Investments distinguished scientific advisor, talks about the fragility of markets, how to hedge against geopolitical risks and artificial intelligence. He’s on “Bloomberg Markets.”
[YouTube] NASSIM TALEB ON: The Art Of Dentistry
NASSIM TALEB ON: The Art Of Dentistry. Video in Arabic.
[YouTube] Universa’s Bernoulli for Portfolio Simulation: Correcting the Empirical Distribution
The empirical distribution is not empirical, full of Turkey problems. “Real tails” do not show in past samples because of their property under fat tails. Empirical distributions are, by design, interpolating; we fix by extrapolating and extending the tails. Note the dispute: In French, Bernoulli is pronounced “Ber-noo-yi” not “Ber-noo-li”, much like consigliere is pronounced “consiyyere”.
[YouTube] A Discussion With Scott Patterson’s About His Book Chaos Kings, Part 4
Topics Covered:
- Geoengineering
- Mao’s Four Pest Problem
- Brexit
- How antagonism between bad politicians can turn into good government
- The “LongTermism” nonsense of SBF
- The Final Chapter
[YouTube] Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Market Sell-Offs
Nassim Taleb, Universa Investments distinguished scientific advisor and ‘The Black Swan’ author, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the latest market trends, what to make of the market sell-off, the Fed’s inflation fight, interest rate outlook, bitcoin’s volatility, and more.